🆚 Liferay vs. Magnolia

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Liferay is three times more popular than Magnolia.
🌎 Liferay is more popular in Spain, the United States, and Italy.
🌍 Magnolia is more popular in Germany, Switzerland, and China.

Liferay

Magnolia

Type

Content management system

About

Liferay Portal is an open-source enterprise web platform for building business solutions, intranets, customer portals, and digital experiences across web and mobile channels.

It offers a modular architecture with reusable portlets, role-based access control, content and document management, workflow and business process automation, built-in collaboration tools such as forums and wikis, and integration capabilities with enterprise systems via APIs and connectors.

Magnolia is an enterprise content management system that's built for demanding multi-channel, multi-language and multi-site digital experience scenarios.

Headquarters

Diamond Bar, California, United States

Münchenstein, Switzerland

Website

liferay.com #66,045

magnolia-cms.com #109,204

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source

EnterpriseCustom

Free version ✔️Community Edition, open source

DX Core$3,500+/month

DX Cloud$5,000+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Liferay CMS is 3 times more popular than Magnolia.

Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Liferay is more popular in Spain, the United States, and Italy, while Magnolia is more popular in Germany, Switzerland, and China.

Spain

Germany

United States

Italy

Switzerland

Finland

Brazil

France

United Kingdom

Austria

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the CMS category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Colombia in the CMS category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Finland in the CMS category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the CMS category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Italy in the CMS category.

🔥 14th most popular in Switzerland in the CMS category.
🔥 18th most popular in Spain in the CMS category.
🔥 20th most popular in Austria in the CMS category.
⬆️ 25th most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
⬆️ 46th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Liferay is more popular among sites focused on business, finance and banking, and government and military, while Magnolia is more commonly used on fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Finance/Banking

Government/Military

Education/Reference

Travel

Marketing/Merchandising

Public Information

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Internet Services